June 21-29, UMD hosts the
6th NASSLI, or North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information. The school features top faculty in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive and computing sciences teaching a dozen and a half intensive 5-day courses, as well as 5 one-hour sessions of student presentations. The faculty includes our own
Norbert Hornstein and 2010 alumnus
Tim Hunter, as well as
Angelika Kratzer,
Frank Veltman,
James Pustejovsky,
Larry Moss,
Yoad Winter,
Shalom Lappin,
Dan Lassiter,
Gregory Kobele,
Sylvain Salvati,
David Danks,
Kevin Zollman,
Lucas Champollion,
Lutz Schröder,
Dirk Pattison,
Justin Bledin,
Alexandru Baltag,
Bryan Renne,
Sonja Smets,
Nina Gierasimczuk,
Jakub Szymanik,
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld,
Jan Broersen,
Wiebke Petersen and
Kata Balogh. Concurrently,
semantic valueballers will be competing for the Beaver Cup, in honor of
David Beaver, director of the 2012 NASSLLI at Austin, and member of the steering committee.
